The Book Village

Everything began, very precisely, on Easter Day in 1984...

That weekend was the first time that the books invaded the streets of this unassuming village of scarcely 400 inhabitants. There were books everywhere : on the sidewalks, in the barns and former cowsheds, under booths erected for the occasion. And it was an astonishing success : 15,000 visitors came to participate in the first great market of rare and second-hand books ever held in the Belgian Ardennes. The Book Village of Redu was born.

That was over twenty years ago...

Today, strolling through the streets of Redu, you can enter some forty shops, including 22 secondhand bookstores. If you love to read, there are no fewer than two kilometres of well-stocked shelves waiting for you in the bookshops of the village, so you are certain to find a multitude of books on the most wide-ranging subjects.

Today, the Book Village of Redu receives more than 200,000 visitors a year from all over the world.